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Re: /dev/cua? Vs /dev/ttyS? (was: Re: co-existance of pppd and mgetty ?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jose Luis Marin Espa/ol)
Mon May 13 17:05:55 1996
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 14:56:33 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Jose Luis Marin Espa/ol <marin@posta.unizar.es>
To: Tony Nugent <tonyn@sctnugen.ppp.gu.edu.au>
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-ppp@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199605122157.HAA03287@sctnugen.ppp.gu.edu.au>
On Mon, 13 May 1996, Tony Nugent wrote:
>
> Can someone kindly explain the difference between the /dev/cua? and
> /dev/ttyS? devices?
>
> Exactly how _should_ they be used?
>
> (10 points for the correct answer :-)
>
> Cheers .
> Tony _--_|\
Well, they've going at it for a more than a month in
comp.os.linux.development, under the thread 'Do we really
need cua* and ttyS*'. I'm not an expert at all, so I was rather confused
about the different opinions...
At the end, the summary is more or less: the kernel takes care of
the necessary (basic) locking for the cua/ttyS scheme; but other locking
schemes can be devised by the application programmers, and a lot
of people feel that the Unix kernel should *not* get in the way, and
let the programmers come up with a locking scheme standard (uucp being
the candidate, it seems).
If anyone followed this thread, is that correct or did I miss something
more important?
Hope it helps,
Jose L Marin
